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| I like the setting and the mecha designs, well everything but the Argevollen's head, it's body is really neat. The MC really pissed me of for 3/4 of the episode though, he had potential because he's already a graduated pilot but his attitude was just annoying and childish. I really hope he'll improve. |
| It was an ok episode I suppose, but a pretty generic start. MC is some kid/ young adult who just is given a super mech or something that makes all the others look stupid and has a bunch of flashing lights and built in cup holders. At least he isn't like a super PRO pilot or anything so he won't be ridiculously OP against the other mechs. I wonder how long until his "arch enemy" type character will appear with a mech similar or equal to the MC's own. |
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| That was a decent first episode. The Gundam vibes were obvious, but I'm fine with it. I'm going to continue with this one to see where it goes, even bad mecha is good entertainment. |
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| In a word, I'd say this was lackluster. Not exactly generic, but when you predict something happening, then it does, it loses the sense of surprise. It was honestly difficult for me to pay attention to the episode. And it reminded me of Break Blade (TV). Which I also dropped. This doesn't mean it's a bad show, but it isn't for me. I just hope I'm not losing interest in the mecha genre. |
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| The atmosphere so far is really well done , definitely different from what we've been getting lately with the mecha genre where the main characters are always highschool students, that alone is a plus in my book, and yes the circumstances leading to the mc getting the a new op mech is fairly typical and while I really wished they would have stayed grounded within the more serious war setting overall this is not as bad or as generic as people are making it out to be |
| I thought this was pretty nice. Will continue watching. |
 "Why did he have to surrender, what is more in the outside world, huh, sumptuousness, freedom? Nowhere in the world are you going to find them fools! Fools!" -USSR president, Future War 198X-nen |
| Like everyone already said, generic as fuck, really. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing but you know, now I know what can I expect from this. While the mecha design was fine I found some animations really poor, I wonder how low the budget is. |
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| The animation, sound and pacing were all great and all but.... I hope the hell to god that just because he saved some civilians that doesn't save him from getting court-marshaled for insubordination. It was complete insane anime plot-armor (i.e. that new Mech) that saved his, the civilians and his superiors arse. In the real world, all three parties would have eventually died in the cross-fire and the show would have ended just like that. Playing the hero in real life usually gets you killed. The only thing going for him was that he was a trained military pilot, but even that doesn't dissuade from the fact that he should have followed orders instead of running off and almost getting his team killed (4 enemy Mechs vs a bunch of foot soldiers, they would have been slaughtered). That said, glasses girl Jamie was quite cute. I actually appreciate her for knocking the MC down a peg for trying to save her. Well, we'll see how this goes now won't we. |
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| Arandas people using Japanese names, and their map look like Japan too already have mechas and ipad here, but no planes or anything that flies? how can a "great wall" be effective in an era that has canons and tanks? sending ships to go around the wall is another option... totally agree that the story is very generic |
| Relatively low quality production, but I'm very much liking the smell of the setting and characters. If nothing else, the low-tech 'modern' military backdrop is comfortable and realtively unexplored while the grunt designs are beautiful and the ED (or is that the OP?) is catchy. This could be delightful. |
| I like this episode. The mc is not annoying. I hope that they will not add sky mech battle and just focus on land battles. |
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| This show doesn't have the sheer productions values of Aldnoah Zero but I have the feeling it ends up being the series with more heart and the better realization of whatever premise it comes up with in the end somehow. Just a hunch. |
Amarrez said: well that was generic MC needs power to save the day MC gets mysterious new power MC masters power in about 30 seconds MC saves the day fixed it for you. Congratulations, you described about 99% of all movies, series, games, books, you name it. Every slice-of-life/romance anime has the MC see some girls naked without his own doing, the girl(s) will call him hentai and slap him. This hold true even if it would be the girl streaking, running naked onto the field during the final match of the world cup, and the MC was watching it as his TV. Heck, even Nagate in Sidonia fell prey to this trope. Thats far worse than doing nothing wrong while not having any special merits. Also, compared to most mecha anime, it's easily explained how he could move it at all: "Just envision what you want to do next". Seeing how far advanced that mech seems to be, it might be that you do not have to think "move left foot 2 meters forward", but "i want to punch that guy" or at least "i want to move over there", and it does the rest. I also think the most generic thing is not the MC, not how he came to pilot a super-mech or the mech design itself, but the generals not only being useless, but out of incompetence actively working against their countries best interest. |
| Front Mission is that you? those mechs really look like wanzers lol |
| I know mecha anime are mostly same cliche getting repeated over and over again, but this one, this one took all cliche things and stuffed it in first episode. It had everything, useless protagonist, disobeying direct order, civilian officer willing to risk her life for her job, smart commander of a small unit, power up after almost dying, enemy suddenly conquering unachievable location, mecha prototype. You name it, it's there. I know this sounds like rant...well, it kinda is, sorry about that. I'll probably last for 2-3 more episodes before dropping this. Seriously doubt anything is gonna improve. There are many good mecha anime out there. Almost all of them share same cliches. Yet it's the execution that separates them from the rest. Cliches are not the problem, cliches with poor execution are. Maybe this one will improve, you never know. |
| I have high hopes for this anime. I see that many people have identified the many clichés in this, which there are indeed many, but I doubt this will be like most mecha anime you find. This military looks like it has a solid chain of command as long as you exclude the flag officers, but to be honest they really were there for an inspection. Those generals appeared not to have any legal authority over the military post, and it really should be the local commander who knows the terrain and his troops to command the battle. I really hope this anime goes the way of 8th MS Team with the focus being local and small units, but I'm not sure which way this anime will go. |
| I see there's not much excitement for this anime yet, but hopefully it will start to catch our attention in future episodes. I found this anime pretty entertaining just hard to understand where everything is going. |
| yeah that felt really generic. young guy mc disobeys and finds a overpowered mech. why was that thing out there? why was the girl with it a bitch and punching him? It felt it barely established the characters so far. decent enough, but could get better. |
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| Mediocre but I'll give it a chance. But the righteous guys piss me of so much! The world is not perfect and you are not the one to make him like that. Pff I remembered Suzaku pff now I'm pissed... |
| A Story will always come to it's end. The thing is, will you move on after it's over? |
| What a cliche / average mecha start. I don't like the MC... idiot can't even follow orders. Oh, but he's so special. He gets the shiny new mech that destroys all... At least the action should be decent. |
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| Felt this first episode was very dull and uninspired. Another mech anime with CGI, and the mechs are very bland and unoriginal i fell. Ill keep watching for now though. |
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| Not the best first episode ever but it was okay. I'll definitely be watching at least a few more episodes. |
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| I thought that Izumi guy is the main protagonist but then that rookie pilot get in the way and had to ruin all my expectations.. Well at least he didn't hesitate to kill an enemy on the spot. |
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| So, should we ship Jamie Hazaford and Susumu Tokimune? Stark700 said: Every whiny pilot needs a punch or slap.THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ----------------------------------------  I thought the episode was eh, felt kinda fast. I'm not sure what to think of Tokimune yet. Hopefully, he'll get some development throughout the show. There were a lot of action. I really like the mech design though. Oh and looks like the MC finds himself in an odd situation. I like the theme song so far I guess. |
Fortress_MaximusAug 7, 2014 4:10 PM
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| So this is set in an alternate world with alternate countries like FMA, far future like Gundam or alternate history like ALDNOAH.ZERO? The green uniforms give me a Russian/Chinese vibe. |
Novels I have read/am reading pending approval: since November 10 2022 |
| That was so bad.. More so with annoying characters like Tokimune (guy has anger issue for some reason) and Jamie. |
ToG25thBaamSep 8, 2014 9:23 AM
| Honobono Log - best slice of life short -------------------------------------------- most kawaii loli overlord ---------------------------- Donquixote Doflamingo AMV - Control |
| 4/5 Except for the graphics, I mean the designs of contexts, designs a bit poor and the animal characters, the rest of row well, even if the protagonist has his usual luck "immediate"! XD Plot that sees the protagonist is not praised and perfect, Yay! Atmosphere military rude and ill suited to heroism, from a certain pathos as well as the mecha used, which are also quite a lot of noise, this is a mecha series quite serious. I look forward to the next episodes to evaluate it better, as usual. For now, my vote is 6/10! |
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| The ED song is to my liking. The overused theme aside, it's not that unbearable for me. Maybe it's just cause I don't watch much mecha anime in the first place. I don't know about the suddenly mastering to pilot that thing, but he totally screwed up imo. The typical mc is a bit ermm.. never did I expect that punch though hahaha good one. Whether or not it's good or bad will depend on how the story goes. |
| the first part of the episode was a very typical, but in the moment appear argevollen, all change, for best!!! ..... 7/10 to begining, now have to watch the evolution of the series... |
| Quite good first episode. I really like the mech design. And I like, how Tokimune quickly disposed of the enemy, instead of going on and on about not wanting to kill or something like that. I wonder, why these guys were driving around in the middle of nowhere. |
| You're a louse, Roger Smith. - R. Dorothy Wayneright This is my fight! No Senpai, this is our fight! - Kojou Akatsuki & Yukina Himeragi  |
| Well it was generic, but I enjoyed it for what it was. |
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